There are several ways to start graphical applications remotely with Linux. One of the most simple and obvious is ssh with -X input parameter. Command ssh -X user@host “firefox” will start best browser ever from remote host (you’ll see it in your local X session). But what about remote session instead of single applications? To start remote X11 session on first console (switch to it with CTRL+F1) execute: xinit ssh [...]
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There are several utilities in FreeBSD to manage kernel modules. Among them are: kldload, kldstat, kldunload. First (kldload) would be useful for loading files *.ko into FreeBSD kernel using kernel linker. Second (kldstat) displays status of files loaded into kernel. Third (kldunload) helps to unload files which were previously loaded into kernel with kldload. This utilities are analogues of modprobe and lsmod utilities in Linux. Example: in order to enable [...]
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Linux has an abundance of excellent terminal applications. Interestingly, I could not find any decent comparison of their text display performance. Since I use the command line a lot, I want text output that is as fast as possible. When you compile a large project, you don’t want the console output to be the limiting factor. Read more…
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After I upgraded to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 Linux distribution I noticed that one of my favorite laptop features suspend/hibernate worked quite baldly and slowly. It took up to few minutes to get laptop sleeping and then awake it. Both default suspend and hibernate features are cheesy in this Ubuntu version. The worst thing I faced was that after I got laptop sleeping and put it into my bag it [...]
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